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单词 gallows-tree
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gallows-tree
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gallows-tree
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The gallows-tree bore fruit through all the year, and the hangman was the busiest official in the kingdom—but the criminals increased.
Ingersoll, Robert Green, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, V...(2012)
It is satisfactory to learn that he swung for it on the gallows-tree.
Stables, Gordon, The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wande...(2011)
And now he felt like a man who has been reprieved from under the very gallows-tree itself.
Mitford, Bertram, The Fire Trumpet—A Romance of the C...(2011)
n alternative terms for gallows
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gallous, gallows tree, gibbet
gallows
an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
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